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Starting a healthy diet, one that will prevent you to develop osteoporosis at a young age is a great thing. There are a few treatment options for this condition, but most have side effects that can be hard to bear. That’s why if you eat plenty of food rich in different minerals and vitamins, the chances you are going to develop a bone disease is going to be cut down in half.

It might not sound like much, but it is the best prevention method available right now, along with the estrogen therapy that should be administered after you’ve reached menopause. Down below you have some essential elements that you should try to incorporate into your diet.

Calcium is vital not only for your bones but also for your muscles and your heart. It should not be overlooked, as you need plenty of calcium every day, especially if you want to avoid fatigue, and if you want to strengthen your bones. It even prevents your blood from clotting. If you are not getting calcium from your food, your body will start demineralizing your bones to obtain it from there, which is terrible news.

Dietary sources of calcium are most dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese, green vegetables with leaves like kale, broccoli, cabbage, and fish. Also, you can add nuts to that diet, especially almonds, as they are rich in calcium and iron. A standard portion should be enough if you incorporate more than one ingredient in one dish.

A vitamin that goes hand in hand with calcium is vitamin D. It is a fat-soluble element found in many fruits and vegetables and it also forms in your body, after its interactions with ultraviolet rays. These rays force your body to produce vitamin D in your skin, which is a great thing since you need it to absorb calcium from the food you’re consuming.

So make sure you and your kids do plenty of outdoor activities, as the sun is the best source of vitamin D. Fifteen minutes a day should be enough, mainly if you don’t use sunscreen. Other foods that are rich in this element are fortified milk, salmon, tuna fish and egg yolks.

Also, proteins are crucial too, so make sure you consume eggs, meat, seafood, beans, and dairy frequently. You don’t have to cook the same thing every day, as these options offer you plenty of culinary diversity, so you won’t get bored very quickly by leading a healthy lifestyle.

There are countless other vitamins which can play a role in the early prevention of osteoporosis. But these ones featured on this list should be enough if you consume them weekly, and if you get plenty of exercises too.

Ultrasounds have a fake image among the general public. They sound terrifying and most people are scared of getting one, even if they don’t know what they are. The truth is that they are harmless and pain-free. There are no needles involved, no cables are going inside your body and there are no actual reasons to avoid getting one.

This is a method of diagnosis that uses sound as a way of seeing the inside of your body. It is also called a sonography since high-frequency sound waves are used to snap live black and white images of your body and the way your body parts function.

There is hardly any other non-invasive imagistic technique that is as reliable and accurate as ultrasounds are. You don’t need any preparations and no dieting, and more importantly, you don’t need to get anesthesia. It is very quick and can be done as many times as you’d like.

One of the best organs to evaluate through an ultrasound is your liver. A regular imagistic test will tell you how your liver is doing, if there are any lesions, neoplastic or not, or if your liver is steatotic. It can be very revealing, maybe even more than a blood test.

So it is important to get an ultrasound as a screen test for most cancers. Another perfectly visible organ via an ultrasound is the bladder. Get a bladder exam once in a while just to see if they are any stones or if it is enlarged. A well-done bladder exam also tells a lot about the state of your kidneys.

Ultrasounds can be used and should be used, to see the state of your esophagus and stomach as well. It can tell a lot about the superficial layers of the organs, and if there are any ulcers that you can prevent from bleeding or transforming into tumors.

Women especially should get an ultrasound to see the state their ovaries are in because they are prone to have polycystic ovaries at all ages. They need to be diagnosed, treated and watched frequently, so it doesn’t lead to premature infertility or to internal hemorrhages which can be fatal.

Another target that should be checked frequently using this method, is the thyroid, in conjunction with a blood test that measures the levels of the thyroid hormones in your bloodstream. An ultrasound can see nodules, can see the hypertrophy of the thyroid tissue and can reveal tumors that spread beyond the organ.

Therefore, since it is a method that doesn’t utilize radiation, that has no side effects, it is important to have them as often as possible, because they are efficient is seeing the state your organs are in or any hidden cancer, which is no joke.

If we only dare to image how medicine was practiced a hundred years ago, we might be in shock. Let’s stop for a second and imagine we were a 19th-century doctor that had patient complaining of a serious pain in their abdominal area. The only way to do a proper examination is to use your hands. As far as the treatment, you have the possibility to prescribe some drugs and see a response in the following weeks. However, unless you get a knife and start cutting their abdomen you really can’t know for sure a diagnosis.

Thanks to the modern discoveries, you no longer have to guess an illness. With the help of a medical imaging device called endoscope, you can easily find out what seems to be the problem and if a surgery is the only solution.

Basically, an endoscope is similar to a bendy telescope used by a physician to see inside a human body’s cavities. Compared to the telescope that features a rigid tube, the endoscope has a soft and flexible end that enters the body.

Moreover, this unit is outfitted with two or three optical cables. Each main cable comprises almost 50,000 separate optical fibers manufactured from high-quality glass or plastic. One or even two main optical cables carry light down into the body of the patient. The last one has to carry the reflected light or the image captured inside the patient’s body back to the eyepiece of the tool. Usually, it’s either a camera that can be paired with a monitor that ensures fast and accurate viewing.

Endoscopes have the same optics like telescopes do. At the remote end of the endoscope, you’ll notice the objective lens that is linked to one or more sections belonging to the optic cables. From there, the light is transferred back out of the body to another lens located in the eyepiece. Typically, you can swivel from one side to another if you want to adjust the focus of the device. Both the lenses and the optical cables are 1.5 inches in diameter or slightly smaller.

But endoscopes do more than just piping some light inside the patient’s body. They are extremely valuable for small surgical interventions and also minor medical procedures. The remote end of an endoscope is facile to move around using the turning knobs or the cables. This way, the device swivels and bends effortlessly from one side to the other. Plus, the secondary tube which is affixed to the main optical cables comes in handy for sucking out obstacles that block different organs and areas in the body or for handling biopsies.

Endoscopes are precious tools for surgeons because they shine very strong and they allow them to see the tissue that needs to be destroyed. Also, it helps them make accurate incisions and heald possible wounds.